Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Namibia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Unwound to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Groovy Waters. All the underground hits.
All Agitation Free tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Gastr Del Sol,
John Holt,
the Human League,
Lee Hazlewood,
Neu!,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Avey Tare,
a-ha,
The Monochrome Set,
Dual Sessions,
Brass Construction,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
DNA,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Young Marble Giants,
Hot Snakes,
Soul II Soul,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
the Swans,
The American Breed,
Eli Mardock,
Quantec,
Das Ding,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ken Boothe,
Scrapy,
Jandek,
Pagans,
UT,
The Pretty Things,
Rites of Spring,
Eve St. Jones,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Gang Green,
Rufus Thomas,
AZ,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Fugs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Q65,
Carl Craig,
Ronnie Foster,
Man Parrish,
Ultra Naté,
The Gladiators,
Depeche Mode,
Sex Pistols,
The Young Rascals,
Chris Corsano,
Skaos,
Yusef Lateef,
X-102,
Guru Guru,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Faraquet,
Sixth Finger,
Loose Ends,
Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.